You can have a democratically elected king. It’s only not a democracy when the king decides who takes the throne after them, instead of having an election. We have a Democratic Kingdom, say it with me phonetically -Dema-kratik-king-dumb-. Did we want this? I dont fuckin know… a majority kept voting for it so we the people must have fuckin wanted it. What is dead however, is the republic. Ain’t no one representing you, you just vote people into a throne.